{"id":728359,"date":"2025-11-20T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Pe9JAeLtFDbWNP3nuzkVQC"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:33:45","slug":"blizzard-employee-snags-a-decade-of-wow-game-time-just-before-being-laid-off-will-not-have-to-pay-a-cent-until-2033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/blizzard-employee-snags-a-decade-of-wow-game-time-just-before-being-laid-off-will-not-have-to-pay-a-cent-until-2033\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard employee snags a decade of WoW game time just before being laid off, will not have to pay a cent until 2033"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The recent <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/microsoft-cuts-1900-jobs-at-activision-blizzard-and-xbox-blizzard-president-mike-ybarra-leaves-the-company-and-the-studios-survival-game-has-been-cancelled\/\">deluge of layoffs at Blizzard<\/a> (and Microsoft&apos;s wider gaming division) has been utterly brutal\u2014especially since several employees <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/stunned-devs-left-scrambling-for-livelihoods-in-wake-of-yesterdays-layoff-bloodbath-in-the-end-the-contributions-didnt-matter\/\">uprooted their lives<\/a> to come and work at the company, with some employed there for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bowl_of_Cole\/status\/1750679961013547437\">just four months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While there&apos;s no way to soften that sort of blow, one crafty ex-Blizzard employee did manage a small win on the way out: Free WoW for a decade. Adam Holisky, the former core technology product lead at Blizzard, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamHolisky\/status\/1750712102879395890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted his last-minute manoeuvre to Twitter<\/a> late last week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery inline-layout\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-wrap\" style=\"display:flex; flex-flow:row nowrap;\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 1 of 2<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:533px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:70.54%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"mViVnuSuapPpL45UnmezM\" name=\"Blizzard Game Time 1.png\" alt=\"A post that reads: \"Once I realized what was happening and that I was gonna be laid off, I made sure to jump into keyring and use all the 1-year subscription codes I have left. \ud83d\ude02\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/blizzard-employee-snags-a-decade-of-wow-game-time-just-before-being-laid-off-will-not-have-to-pay-a-cent-until-2033.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"376\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @AdamHolisky on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 2 of 2<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1038px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:12.91%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"VYYT2GxWFBJXPU5U2otcN9\" name=\"WoW Game Time 2.jpeg\" alt=\"An image of @AdamHolisky on Twitter's World of Warcraft subscription, showing that his game time runs until 2033.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/blizzard-employee-snags-a-decade-of-wow-game-time-just-before-being-laid-off-will-not-have-to-pay-a-cent-until-2033.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"134\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: @AdamHolisky on Twitter\/X.)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Holisky&apos;s current game time will now expire October 14, 2033. That&apos;s nearly a whole decade where he doesn&apos;t have to pay a single cent to the company that just laid him off (bar expansions) and while it&apos;s a small consolation prize, it&apos;s one hell of parting gift.<\/p>\n<p>Holisky <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamHolisky\/status\/1750753743245889791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rightfully notes<\/a> that these codes are a &#8220;well known employee benefit&#8221;, so it&apos;s not as if he walked out of Blizzard with an armful of office supplies. Still\u2014as a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/badrocket1\/status\/1750720087462392012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former customer support worker<\/a> notes: &#8220;I tried this mid-meeting and we crashed the keyring site&#8230; so I have a lot I didn&apos;t get to claim.&#8221; Holisky had to be quick on the draw to cash in, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Just to quickly figure out how much money Holisky <em>doesn&apos;t <\/em>have to pay Blizzard to keep playing World of Warcraft, let&apos;s take a look at current US subscription prices. Assuming his last subscription was January 14, 2024, Holisky has 117 months of free game time in his pocket.<\/p>\n<p>If he paid monthly, Holisky saved around $1,754 over the course of 10 years. Even if he bought his subscription yearly, that would still be about $1,520. These numbers only matter if WoW&apos;s still kicking in a decade, or that its subscription price never changes. Or if Holisky wants to play WoW for that long. It&apos;s more symbolic than anything.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamHolisky\/status\/1751027093583057122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later tweet<\/a>, Holisky writes: &#8220;You know, maybe it says something that I\u2019m more relaxed today than I have been in weeks. Or months even? Longer? No Slack or email worries. No thinking about whatever drama or political heat is happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/blizzard-employee-snags-a-decade-of-wow-game-time-just-before-being-laid-off-will-not-have-to-pay-a-cent-until-2033\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent deluge of layoffs at Blizzard (and Microsoft&apos;s wider gaming division) has been utterly brutal\u2014especially since several employees uprooted their lives to come and work at the company, with some employed there for just four months. While there&apos;s no way to soften that sort of blow, one crafty ex-Blizzard employee did manage a small win on the way out: Free WoW for a decade. Adam Holisky, the former core technology product lead at Blizzard, posted his last-minute manoeuvre to Twitter late last week. Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: @AdamHolisky on Twitter\/X.) Image 2 of 2 (Image credit: @AdamHolisky on Twitter\/X.) Holisky&apos;s current game time will now expire October 14, 2033. That&apos;s nearly a whole decade where he doesn&apos;t have to pay a single&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/blizzard-employee-snags-a-decade-of-wow-game-time-just-before-being-laid-off-will-not-have-to-pay-a-cent-until-2033\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1348,6626,135],"class_list":["post-728359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-blizzard-entertainment","tag-microsoft-games","tag-mmo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blizzard employee snags a decade of WoW game time just before being laid off, will not have to pay a cent until 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